On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:30:07PM +0200, Neil Williams wrote: > Removing the -ltic from the LDFLAGS variable exported prior > to ./configure and instead passing it directly to $(MAKE) allows > libtool to link tack correctly.
hmm -- last I knew, Debian isn't using the libtool configuration for
ncurses or tack.
> I've just built tack by removing -ltic from the variable exported
> to ./configure, using this line in debian/rules:
>
> $(MAKE) LDFLAGS="-ltic -lncurses"
>
> The problem is the need to add ncurses which is plain ugly. I suspect
> an upstream bug. Maybe stop copying config.guess and config.sub and
I usually start by assuming the answer's in the changelog.
Sounds like
20080823
+ modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
> actually use 'autoreconf -ifs' to sort out the autoconf problems from
> upstream, although that looks like it will need a patch for
> configure.in. I suspect upstream are not testing the release with 'make
> distcheck'.
that ought to be an faq (but the comments in configure.in should be
sufficient).
bye.
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